-Friday October 13th

Online Parallel Sessions and Meetings


*All times in the schedule are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

UTC Offset: UTC -4 

8.30 - 10.00  - Parallel Sessions A


(hybrid, Italian language session)

Classroom B

Moderator: Maria Cristina Vendra (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)




Una saggezza “sollecitata” : Sul ruolo della dimensione fenomenologica nell'epistemologia ricoeuriana della phronesis

Alessandro Colleoni (CRAL-EHESS) [online]


Ricœur tra filosofia riflessiva e saggezza pratica

Angela Renzi (University of Naples "Federico II") [online]


L’attestation de soi: la promessa del soggetto

Gianluca Ronca (Collegio Ghislieri, Institute for Advanced Studies, Pavia, Italy) [online]



Graduate/New Scholars Session 1 (hybrid, English/French)

Classroom A

Co-Moderators: Marjolaine Deschênes (Collège Montmorency, Laval, Quebec); George Taylor (Pittsburgh University)


The refugee crisis as a tragedy on the stage of the world: Tragedy and phronesis in Ricœur’s “little ethics”

King Reinier Palmea (Charles University in Prague) [online]


Imagination in Moral Action: A Murdochian-Ricœurian Account

Maria Gallego-Ortiz (Boston College) [online]


Relire Paul Ricœur à la lumière de Peirce : quelques réflexions sémio-pragmatistes à propos de la capabilité herméneutique ou de « l’herméneute capable »

Charles Berthelet (Philosophie - École des hautes études en sciences sociales Sociologie - Université du Québec à Montréal) [in person]


Ricœur's ‘rehabilitation’ of the concept of sign

Caner Yildirim (University of Memphis) [in person]


Session A.2 (In Person)


Classroom C 

Moderator: Brian Gregor (California State University, Dominguez Hills)





Vulnerability, violence, and care: Paul Ricœur on hermeneutic injustice in the context of medical ethics

Elodie Boublil (Université Paris Est Créteil, UPEC) [in person]


On the Cultivation of Healing Stances for an Experiential, Compassion-Focused, and Person-Centered Mental Health Counseling

Cristina Bucur (Duquesne University/Real Talk Psychotherapy, MHC, in NYC) [in person]


Narrating as a Therapy in Life: Paul Ricœur’s Ideas on Time and Narrative as a Method of Healing

Cristal Huang (Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan) [in person]


Grieving through you, not for you: Reflections on mourning and memory in illness narratives

Elyse Purcell (SUNY-Oneonta, New York) [in person]



10.15-11.45  - Parallel Panels 1


(hybrid, French language panel)

Classroom A

Moderator: Elodie Boublil (Université Paris Est Créteil, UPEC)



Panel Title: La justice narrative : l’acte de juger comme expérience herméneutique et éthique. Autour des sentiments de compassion et de culpabilité de la juge Mafalda.


Cyndie Sautereau (Cégep Limoilou à Québec) [in person]


Christelle Landheer-Cieslak (Faculté de droit, Université Laval à Québec) [in person]



(hybrid, French, English language panel)

Classroom C

Moderator: Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)



Book Panel: Le Mal et la symbolique : Ricœur lecteur de Freud, edited by Azadeh Thiriez-Arjangi, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Michael Funk Deckard and Andrés Bruzzone (Open Access, De Gruyter 2023)


Michael Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne University) [in person]


Azadeh Thiriez-Arjangi (Fonds Ricœur) [in person]


Andrés Bruzzone (Independent scholar, São Paulo, Brazil) [online]



13.30-15.00  - Parallel Sessions B

(In-Person)


Graduate/New Scholars Session 2 (in person)

Classroom A

Moderator: Robert Piercey (Campion College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan)


Teleological universals and contextual deontology: Ricœur’s dialectic between argumentation and conviction

Greg Newing (McGill University) [in person]


Practical Wisdom, Institutions and Anonymity

Jean-François Rioux (McGill University) [in person]


Ricœur’s hermeneutics and historical representation

Marco Sechi (University of Cagliari, Italy) [in person]




(hybrid)

Classroom C 

Moderator: Roger Savage (University of California, Los Angeles)


Paul Ricœur, Pope Francis, and a Pedagogy of Discernment

Michele Kueter Petersen (St. Ambrose University) [in person]


Ricœur and the Poetry of Revelation

Samuel Underwood (Memorial University of Newfoundland) [in person]


Ricœur Reading Bultmann Reading the New Testament: The Project of Demythologization

Abdullah Basaran (Hitit University, Faculty of Divinity (İlahiyat), Çorum, Turkey) [online]


Socialism for the Rich, Private Enterprise for the Poor: Using Ricœur’s Three-fold Ethic to Address Social and Economic Disparity

Brad Deford (Independent scholar, WA, USA) [online]



(hybrid, English, Spanish language)

Classroom B

Moderator: Héctor Acero Ferrer (Institute for Christian Studies)


Revisión de la primera tópica y la metapsicología según Paul Ricœur en la obra de Sigmund Freud

 Arturo Jesús Herbert Mainero (Universidad Mondragón, México) [online]


Paul Ricœur, el reconocimiento de sí mismo: la gran tarea

Maestra Rosa Pacheco Soto (Independent scholar) [in person]


The Political Hermeneutics of Artificial Intelligence

Sebastian Purcell (SUNY-Cortland, New York) [in person]



15.15-16.45  - Parallel Panels 2


Classroom C

Moderator: Ann Mudde (Campion College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan)



Panel Title: Ricœur’s Practical Philosophy and Environmental Responsibility


Environmental Capability: Translation and Our Responsibility to More-Than-Human Others

Nathan Bell (Dallas College) [online]


Turning Toward the “Not-Yet”: Expectation and Initiative in Environmental Practice

David Utsler (North Central Texas College) [in person]


From Eco-Imagination to the Principle of Eco-Responsibility: For a Phenomenological Ethics of the Natural Environment with Paul Ricœur

Cristina Vendra (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) [in person]




Classroom A

Moderator: Charles Sharp (California State University, Fullerton)



Panel Title: Ricœur's Semantic Theory and AI-based Large Language Models


Digital Humanities and Ricœur

Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) [in person]


Threefold Mimetic Narrativity and Structuralism: How Large Language Models Threaten Refiguration in Educational Pedagogy

Patrick Bloniasz (Boston University) [in person]


Semantic Innovation and Large Linguistic Models

Fernando Nascimento (Bowdoin College) [in person]




17.00-18.30 (Classroom C)


Keynote Address 2 

Scott Davidson 

West Virginia University


What Makes ChatGPT Think? Ricœur and Generative AI


Chair: Michael Johnson (Society Vice-President)



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